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53 books

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

70 pages • first pub 1909 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction classics science fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan

13 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction health memoir philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

Garrett M. Graff

560 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Vol 2 by Christopher Andrew

The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Vol 2

Mitrokhin Archive #2

Christopher Andrew

736 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction history politics informative tense slow-paced
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 by Toby Harnden, Toby Harnden

First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11

Toby Harnden, Toby Harnden

432 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
dark informative tense medium-paced
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

P.W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking

405 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction politics technology informative medium-paced
Dispatches by Michael Herr

Dispatches

Michael Herr

272 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Anthony Loyd

336 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history memoir dark slow-paced
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm

George Orwell

152 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective fast-paced
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Ronen Bergman

777 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative tense slow-paced